Ask Stew: How to Improve Pushup Performance
Stew Smith, Navy SEAL veteran and Military.com's tactical fitness expert, advises a reader how to improve their pushup perfor...
Pushups and Pullups
Perfect Practice for Perfect Push-ups
Need to improve on your push-ups? All it takes is practice -- and these simple tips and workouts to help you get above-averag...
Push-up Push Workout
Basically, do 200 push-ups in as few sets as possible in addition to your regularly scheduled workout of cardio exercises.
Ask Stew: Methods to Improve PT Tests
Navy SEAL veteran and Military.com's fitness guru answers an email from a reader about how to increase pullup and pushup repe...
Ask Stew: Supplemental Training For Pullups, Pushups, Situps
Stew Smith, Navy SEAL veteran and Military.com's tactical fitness expert answers a question from a reader about how to increa...
Combat Conditioning and Fitness Testing
There are two different types of training you must be prepared for in order to become a member of special operations of any b...
Extreme Body-Core Temperatures
On the National Geographic Channel Fight Science - Special Ops Episode, you will see the effects of body core temperature in...
One Soldier, Two Workouts
Here is a great question from soldier who wants to add in some extra PT with his command group PT and does not want to overdo...
The Perfect Workout
Many people like to do calisthenics based workouts using pyramids and super set routines. In fact, with the right mix of exer...
The Push-up System
Over the years, I have developed several methods to increase pushups and have written articles on ways to implement them into...
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